Machine Learning Contracts in Cambridgeshire

Machine Learning (ML)
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cambridgeshire requiring Machine Learning skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Machine Learning over the 6 months leading up to 28 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 36 37 52
Rank change year-on-year +1 +15 +10
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Machine Learning 6 9 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 1.82% 2.13% 0.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.06% 2.65% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 1
10th Percentile £411 £345 -
25th Percentile £428 £394 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year +22.50% +11.11% -18.18%
75th Percentile £781 £554 -
90th Percentile £815 £571 -
East of England median daily rate £563 £513 £600
% change year-on-year +9.76% -14.58% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Median hourly rate - £52.50 -
East of England median hourly rate £80.00 £52.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +52.38% -19.23% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cambridgeshire

Machine Learning falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Cambridgeshire.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 291 340 493
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 88.45% 80.57% 91.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 105 108 218
10th Percentile £250 £216 £226
25th Percentile £379 £328 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £441 £450
Median % change year-on-year +19.05% -2.00% -5.26%
75th Percentile £625 £550 £550
90th Percentile £700 £638 £597
East of England median daily rate £500 £425 £500
% change year-on-year +17.65% -15.00% +2.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 80 144 184
10th Percentile £14.38 £14.16 £13.41
25th Percentile £14.84 £15.00 £14.25
Median hourly rate £16.27 £16.23 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year +0.22% +11.93% -
75th Percentile £21.50 £21.37 £20.56
90th Percentile £44.96 £48.75 £25.85
East of England median hourly rate £31.57 £40.00 £19.81
% change year-on-year -21.09% +101.92% -3.37%

Machine Learning
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

Job postings citing Machine Learning as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire.

Job vacancy trend for Machine Learning in Cambridgeshire

Machine Learning
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing Machine Learning.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing Machine Learning

Machine Learning
Daily Rate Histogram in Cambridgeshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Machine Learning in Cambridgeshire over the 6 months to 28 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Machine Learning in Cambridgeshire

Machine Learning
Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing Machine Learning.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing Machine Learning

Machine Learning
DemandTrendContract Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Machine Learning within the Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 28 August 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Cambridge -5 6 £613 +22.50% 23
Machine Learning
East of England

Machine Learning
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridgeshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) Apache Spark
1 1 (16.67%) Jupyter
Business Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) AWS
2 4 (66.67%) Amazon S3
3 3 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (33.33%) Amazon EKS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (33.33%) MongoDB
2 2 (33.33%) NoSQL
3 1 (16.67%) Big Data
3 1 (16.67%) Data Lake
3 1 (16.67%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) MLflow
General
1 2 (33.33%) Pharmaceutical
2 1 (16.67%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Data Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Data Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) PySpark
2 1 (16.67%) NumPy
2 1 (16.67%) Pandas
2 1 (16.67%) PyTorch
2 1 (16.67%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Life Science
2 1 (16.67%) AI Agents
2 1 (16.67%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (16.67%) Genomics
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Artificial Intelligence
1 4 (66.67%) Data Engineering
1 4 (66.67%) Data Modelling
2 3 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (50.00%) LLM
3 2 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 2 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
3 2 (33.33%) ETL
3 2 (33.33%) Prototyping
3 2 (33.33%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
4 1 (16.67%) Agile
4 1 (16.67%) Bioinformatics
4 1 (16.67%) Biotechnology
4 1 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (16.67%) CRM
4 1 (16.67%) Data Analysis
4 1 (16.67%) Test Automation
4 1 (16.67%) Use Case
4 1 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
4 1 (16.67%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) Python
2 1 (16.67%) Java
2 1 (16.67%) Scala
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
1 1 (16.67%) Master's Degree
1 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
1 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Databricks
2 1 (16.67%) Cloudera
2 1 (16.67%) Salesforce
2 1 (16.67%) Vertica